10 Best Face Powders 2024 | UK Makeup Artist Reviewed

Our winning face powder has a truly decadent feel, softening skin and cushioning it as it provides the ideal layer of coverage. Not only is it wonderfully fine, the colour is translucent, and the shade ranges available cover very light to deep skin tones and everything in between. 

Best suited to perfecting skin by smoothing out flaws, or for brushing lightly over foundation to keep it fixed in place with no blurs or smudging, this lovely loose powder creates superb, subtle, blurring, and luminous results.

This gorgeously soft powder comes in a range of tasteful pinks and golds which can be blended and brushed across the skin to give a divine glow. Boosted with sodium hyaluronate (a total moisture magnet) and a botanical blend of mulberry, grape, and Scutellaria extract, it's also deeply hydrating and brightening. 

Use an angled brush to cover your whole face with this chic, natural-looking translucent powder and achieve an overall radiance, or add to specific points to highlight your best features.

To build your ideal level of coverage while safeguarding skin against shine, try Rimmel's excellent value smooth-finish powder, which claims to keep skin looking matte, but also refreshed, for up to 9 hours.

An advantage of this product is that it can conveniently be used when you're in a rush or out and about. It's a mineral powder and contains coconut oil meaning it nourishes and hydrates as it blots grease.

Giorgio Armani's exceptional makeup technology cleverly transforms this feather-light powder into a liquid as it touches and reacts with your skin, meaning it can be blended seamlessly over any imperfection for any age, whether fine lines, scarring, or acne.

There's no sidestepping the fact that it's a luxury designer buy, but for good reason! It really does beat much of the competition for utterly flawless and smooth coverage – think of it like a liquid foundation in a convenient compact.

Estée Lauder's loose powder may be at the high end of the price bracket, but is forgiven for the exceptional quality. It can be dusted over oily skin to provide gossamer-light coverage, allowing your complexion to appear matte yet dewy.

This sheer shine-controlling powder is extremely multifunctional – it masks pores without clogging them and helps to keep your makeup neat and tidy, all whilst being light enough to retain a fresh and moisturised appearance. Perfect!

Absolutely ideal as a replacement for liquid foundation, this product covers the skin in one easy sweep and does its best to minimise pores and fight against acne while providing light, comfortable coverage that looks natural and smooth. 

As well as being an effective product, it's also beautifully packaged, with a cute heart-eyes smile carved into the powder. Which is how you'll look after dusting your face with the silky-soft brush or sponge, both of which are provided. On the downside, some users have reported experiencing some cakiness, and the compact itself is quite bulky for taking on-the-go.

Clinique's ultra-light, long-lasting powder is a brilliant investment for your makeup bag. It covers skin in a pleasant matte layer of translucent colour which keeps foundation and concealer set firmly in place all day long. 

Available in an impressive range of 14 shades, most of us should be able to find our best-fit colour with ease. With a sheer finish, this oil-free powder smooths triumphantly over flaws and lines and won't clog pores. However, some dry skin users have mentioned that the powder doesn't achieve the expected results for their complexion.

This luxurious, exquisitely fine powder provides a light veil of flawless matte coverage for oily skin. It's only available in several shades, but the aim is to achieve an overall layer of sheer coverage, rather than providing a deep base of colour.

Whip this useful little compact out of your bag in the back of an Uber to quickly touch up oily skin or boost your glow – though actually it provides coverage that lasts a good few hours, so you probably won't need it unless you're planning to be out from day to night! We do have to point out, however, that only 3 shade ranges are available which may be difficult for some to find the perfect shade. 

Available in three formulas; original (which has added SPF), illuminating and tinted, this unfathomably fine powder glides over skin to leave a very fine protective layer on top of makeup, fixing it firmly but subtly in place. You can even set lipstick with it! 

As a mineral product, this powder is made from, you guessed it, actual minerals, and has added vitamins to boot, so not only will your skin appear miraculously flaw-free, it will also be nourished and protected as you blend. However, you do have to tap the powder out so may not be the best choice for touch-ups on the go.

This barely-visible powder product is air-whipped to a mousse-light formula, which glides onto your complexion and provides a lasting matte finish, absorbing excess sebum and helping to neutralize shine.

Unfortunately, this product is only available in one 'universal' shade, so it's not particularly inclusive in terms of who can use it. It's also quite pricey for the size, but will nonetheless still impress those with lighter to medium skin tones.